IDENTITY
司sībureau; to manage
HSK 4Top 400
CORE MEANING
bureau; to manage
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.office; departmentHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 口mouth radical (kǒu)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- semi-enclosed compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿹𠃌𠮛
- the mouth issuing orders
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
公司gōngsīcompany
司机sījīdriver
司法sīfǎjustice
Graded examples
他爸爸开了一家公司。Tā bàba kāi le yì jiā gōngsī.HSK4
His dad runs a company.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 同
LEARNING
Memory aid
A mouth (口) commanding from behind a desk — an office, a bureau.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #400
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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